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Sweet Like Chocolate, Boy

  • The Cockpit Gateforth Street London, England, NW8 8EH United Kingdom (map)

"You ever look out of your estate and feel like there is something...Beautiful here...but nobody's happy enough to see it?"

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As the worlds of Mars & Bounty collide, can they find their place in these times or will they get chewed, swallowed and digested by it?

Theatre-maker and storyteller Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (Roundhouse Resident Artist ‘16) presents a matinee scratch performance of award-winning , urban-fantasy storytelling play "Sweet Like Chocolate, Boy." Produced by Playback Drama & Dreamarts Youth Charity and written and co-starring Fynn-Aiduenu, "Sweet Like Chocolate, Boy" is a storytelling, physical theatre piece about two black boys growing up in the same estate two decades apart. Their realities merge in one day that sees the combustion of their tower-block worlds. The production tackles various themes including: depression, mental health, the black community, racism, New Black Consciousness

This event is hosted by Ebun Ali and features sumptuous curtain raising performances by:
- Rara (Poet)
- Gabriel Akamo (Poet)
- Corrie King & Miah Robinson (Dance)

Prices online: £12 (conc) / 15 / £5 OFF Groups of 5
More on the door! Book early to avoid dissapointment!

Later Event: April 9
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